TBP World Tour: Pirate Bay now in Guyana as Peru cuts off domain without warning

The world’s most famous torrent website, the Pirate Bay, is continuing it’s forced "world tour" and has moved for the fourth time in a week. The site popped-up in Guyana a day after Peru suspended the site’s domain name without prior notice.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) said that the .PE domain was barred on
Wednesday, without prior warning from officials. Now the website
can be found at thepiratebay.gy, a Guyana based .GY country code
top-level domain (ccTLD).

Peru’s National Institute for the Defense of Competition and
Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) has ordered the
ban on the domain, saying "The use of thepiratebay.pe domain
can help users avoid infringement by connecting, sharing files
and downloading files," according to El Comercio.

In case the small South American country decides to shut down
TPB’s activities, the company claims they have plenty of
countries to relocate to.
“We have some 70 domain names left, so eventually we will find
one that sticks,” a Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak.
“A few domains have been prepared so we can switch over
whenever’s needed.”

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Before moving to Peru the torrent site was forced to briefly use
the services of Ascension Island's .AC, territory controlled by
the UK government. Stringent supporter of copyrights laws, moving
to a British territory was a temporary solution, following last
week’s Pirate Bay's .SX domain seizure, forced by the Dutch
anti-piracy group BREIN.

The group sent a letter to The Pirate Bay's owners, claiming that
"by registering domain names and using these and/or allowing
these to be used" they "infringe on the rights of Rights
Owners" and can be held "liable for the damages that they have
suffered."

As the site is trying to stay operational, the new .gy address is
the sixth one used by The Pirate Bay this year. The torrent site
since April moved from Greenland to Iceland to Saint Maarten.

Last week TorrentFreak learned that The Pirate Bay group is
currently developing PirateBrowser software, which will make URLs and
domains irrelevant when accessing the website. The group claimed
that by their actions the entertainment industry "finally
brought on the next generation of decentralised services.”

In the meantime TPB visitors statistics showed a 15 percent
decline in active users, TorrentFreak reports, adding that an
estimated 10 percent of visits are done through proxies. Those
users who aren't sure about the current domain name of the Pirate
Bay can access it via 194.71.107.80 IP address or “just
Google it.”

Social media has exploded with comments following yet another
move by the TPB.

Ashley Cooper on the other hand believes that the domain will
soon move again. “Pirate bay.co.com.org.UK.nz.au.net.biz.ru
coming soon,” she posted. Some like Franky McFly, had a
simple message, “God save the pirate bay!!”

Meanwhile TPB co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has appeared in
closed-door court hearing over charges of hacking into Danish
government databases. Warg is facing 6 years’ prison term for his
role in breaking into the Danish social security database,
driver’s license database, and the shared IT system used in the
Schengen zone. Warg’s custody was extended to January 8, 2014.